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this could be a good question. There’s nothing wrong with a candidate giving some less effluent answer and then progressing up to a better solution with some sm
by google234123 4y ago
this could be a good question. There’s nothing wrong with a candidate giving some less effluent answer and then progressing up to a better solution with some small hints or discussions
- heleninboodler 4y agoIf I'm giving this sort of question, I expect you to solve it in an obvious way, write the code for it, then talk about potential improvements. Writing it twice while having an epiphany between the first and second is simply not reasonable. And selecting for candidates who have studied these problems well enough to already know the optimal solutions is not going to get you good developers, it's going to get you leetcode champs. If you're building a competitive leetcode team, then great. If not, you're just focusing on the wrong hiring bar.
- weard_beard 4y agoEffluent is poop
- vertis 4y agoIt should be a "more effluent" answer and then working up to less effluent :)
- weard_beard 4y agoI think they were mathematically correct. Affluent + Eloquent = Bullshit